Hundreds of Texas school districts will stop using curriculum accused of promoting anti-American, pro-Islam values

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A much-maligned curriculum system designed to help teachers adhere to state educational requirements and used by hundreds of school districts across Texas will stop offering lesson plans amid mounting pressure from some conservatives who claimed it was promoting anti-American values.

State Sen. Dan Patrick said Monday that the 20-member board overseeing the CSCOPE system will vote to effectively gut it later this week. He displayed copies of a letter signed by all board members pledging to scrap lesson plans by Aug. 31.

The announcement comes as the Texas Legislature was poised to pass a $1.1 million plan to provide strict state oversight for CSCOPE, which has drawn sharp criticism from tea party lawmakers — even though much of the general public has never heard of the curriculum system. That bill is now largely moot.

“The era of CSCOPE lesson plans has come to an end,” Patrick, a Tea Party favorite who heads the Senate Education Committee, said at a news conference.

CBS Houston, 20 May 2013

Muslims, democracy and liberty

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Kelly James Clark, Senior Research Fellow at Grand Valley State University’s Kaufman Interfaith Institute, examines the findings of the Pew Research Center’s recently published survey of Muslims in non-Western countries. He concludes:

“When all of the data on democracy and liberty are added to data collected about American Muslims, one thing rings loud and clear: Muslims around the world are in favor of peace, harmony, liberty, and tolerance. The stereotype of the Muslim terrorist must finally be laid to rest — this is the view of a very small minority. Those in the West should stop judging Islam in the light of this very small minority.”

Huffington Post, 20 May 2013

Police, locals deny claim that part of The Hague is a ‘Sharia triangle’

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Wilders finds Islamofascism in The Hague
Wilders’ tweet in response to Trouw article: ‘Islamofascism is advancing in the Netherlands’

Claims by newspaper Trouw that part of The Hague’s Schilderswijk district is so dominated by orthodox Muslims they are dictating what people should wear and how they should behave, have been denied by both police and local politicians.

Under the headline “Hague district is orthodox Muslim territory”, Trouw said “short skirts and dresses are not accepted on the street”. The paper said the area, with a population of some 5,000, is known by locals as “The Sharia Triangle”. “Very slowly, the rules in the area are beginning to change,” the article said. “The norms of the majority are beginning to take over.”

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EDL to hold protest in Newcastle

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Newcastle Against the EDLThe English Defence League is to hold a demonstration on the streets of the North-east at the weekend.

Although few details have yet been announced, the EDL confirmed it plans to hold a national protest in Newcastle on Saturday (May 25) over proposals to open an Islamic school in the city.

Newcastle City Council has approved a planning application for a new faith school to be opened at Bishop’s Palace in the Benwell area of the city, previously used as the set for the BBC children’s series Byker Grove.

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Golden Dawn threatens mass mobilisation against Athens mosque

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Golden Dawn anti-Mosque posterGreek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn has threatened to mobilize 100,000 people against plans to build a mosque in Athens, state television reported on Monday.

“If a mosque is constructed for Islamist criminals in Greece, a front of 100,000 Greeks headed by Golden Dawn will be created,” party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris told supporters at a rally late on Sunday, in footage broadcast by state television.

The threat came after the Muslim Association of Greece over the weekend said it had received a crude note littered with profanities, warning its members to leave the country or face “slaughter like chickens.”

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Novelist sees nothing wrong with gender discrimination when the victim is a Muslim woman

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The Zionist lobby suffered a humiliating setback recently when an Employment Tribunal case brought by pro-Israel activist Ronnie Fraser, who complained that he had been subjected to discrimination by the University and College Union, was comprehensively rejected by the tribunal.

In Friday’s Independent one of the witnesses to who gave evidence in support of Fraser, novelist Howard Jacobson, attacked the tribunal judge Anthony Snelson for dismissing the charge that the UCU was institutionally antisemitic because it opposed Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. Not content with implying that Snelson is biased against Jews, Jacobson also suggested that the judge is inclined to rule in favour of Muslims (in Jacobson’s mind there is evidently a clear link between the two).

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Taj Hargey jumps on ‘Muslim grooming’ bandwagon

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Taj-HargeyThere’s always been a market for Muslims who are prepared to publicly endorse Islamophobic smears against their co-religionists, and Taj Hargey, the self-appointed imam from Oxford, has always been particularly eager to cater to that demand.

If you’re looking for a self-styled Muslim leader to back a Zionist-inspired Panorama attack on the Muslim Council of Britain, blame British mosques for the 7/7 bombings, accuse university Islamic societies of fuelling terrorism, support the claim that a mosque near the Sandhurst military academy represents a security threat, line up with Christian fundamentalists in denouncing a proposed “mega-mosque” in East London, applaud Sarkozy’s ban on the veil or excuse the Swiss ban on minarets – then Taj Hargey’s your man. (A summary of Hargey’s record on such issues can be found here.)

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